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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Political will needed to fight against hunger

The Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has declared that the
fight against hunger is essentially a political issue, reports NaijaAgroNet.

"Italy maintains that the fight for food security is,
at this point in history, a question of politics with a capital ‘P'," he
said while speaking at a session in Rome
to mark the 2016 World Food Day.

He also said, that the international community needs to
urgently address the problems of inequality and injustice.

“Italy would strive to ensure that these themes are at the
top of the international agenda, including at two important events in March
next year: the G7 summit, which Italy will host and preside and a meeting of
European Union leaders,

Renzi noted that Europe should reject a "culture of
waste". Italy recently passed a new law aimed at curbing food waste, one
that was based, "more on collaboration and less on punishment".

Another keynote speaker at the ceremony, Princess Lalla
Hasnaa of Morocco, whose country is hosting next month's COP22 climate talks,
said these would be "action-oriented" and geared towards implementing
the Paris Agreement.

"The Moroccan Presidency will seek to nurture and
promote the spirit of mobilization which prevailed in Paris in terms of
increasing climate funding, developing expertise and ensuring the transfer of
technology. It will lay special emphasis on adaptation, primarily for the
countries of the South and for Small Island States." Princess Hasnaa said.